MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Onsite Auto Body Solutions on Halls Mill Road is one of the many homes and businesses that lost power after Wednesday night’s severe weather.
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Heather Humphries has been the owner for eight years.
She says Thursday morning, before she came to work, she got a notification from her alarm company about the power at her business.
“I think it was a couple hours before I got here,” Humphries said. “It was out for a little while; the alarm company lets me know when it goes out. But it wasn’t too bad. It was before most people were up moving.”
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Halls Mills Road near the I-65 Service Road also experienced major damage.
Humphries saw it firsthand.
“There was a tree down in the road, and it pulled down several power lines,” Humphries said. “So I’m assuming we had some sort of a tornado or a straight line wind of some sort, but there were many tree limbs down in the road as well. So, pretty good bit of damage. “
Heather said as a result, it took her a while to get to work Thursday morning.
“Traffic was backed up probably a half mile on Halls Mill this morning,” Humphries said. “So as well as on the interstate on I-65 southbound. A little bit hard for me to navigate when we got here.”
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Alabama Power has now completely restored power to that area, and traffic is back up and running.
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